US 12,141,851 B2
System and method for providing tap-less, real-time visual search
Claudiu Colteu, Chicago, IL (US); Fouad Bousetouane, Vernon Hills, IL (US); Nirav Saraiya, Western Springs, IL (US); and William Gillespie, Libertyville, IL (US)
Assigned to W. W. GRAINGER, INC., Lake Forest, IL (US)
Filed by W.W. Grainger, Inc., Lake Forest, IL (US)
Filed on Jan. 14, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/148,725.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/076,741, filed on Sep. 10, 2020.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/048,704, filed on Jul. 7, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2022/0012790 A1, Jan. 13, 2022
Int. Cl. G06V 10/22 (2022.01); G06F 16/538 (2019.01); G06F 18/22 (2023.01); G06Q 30/0251 (2023.01); G06Q 30/0601 (2023.01); G06V 20/20 (2022.01)
CPC G06Q 30/0629 (2013.01) [G06F 16/538 (2019.01); G06F 18/22 (2023.01); G06V 10/22 (2022.01); G06V 20/20 (2022.01)] 18 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A non-transitory, computer-readable media having stored thereon instructions, the instructions, when executed by a computing device, cause the computing device to perform steps comprising:
using data within an image frame being captured via use of an imaging element associated with the computing device to automatically detect that an object within the image frame is a most prominently detected object within the image frame; and
in direct response to an expiration of a predetermined amount of time with the object continually being the most prominently detected object within the image frame automatically providing at least of part of the image frame to a cloud-based visual search process for the purpose of locating one or more matching products from within a product database for the object with the located one or more matching products being returned to a customer as a product search result.